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Mercedes’ Robert Wickens felt his car was good enough for pole position at Oschersleben, but the HWA team was caught out by the weather.
3 d2 U4 d& C/ b! G' |% ?# a: itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWickens told the official DTM channel: “we waited for too long to do my hot-lap, then it started raining” after he was unable to improve on his best time of 1m21.185 in the wet Q2 session.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。, ?: p& M5 m+ E4 L
The Nürburgring winner has since revealed he felt his car was capable of pole position.
* K, v& ~! O: A* I/ N5.39.217.76“It’s altogether a great pity because I think we have a good car, good enough even to progress to Q4 and on to pole position with a little bit of luck.5.39.217.76" P- k# @8 d3 z' d% k+ w( ~: j
“It was very difficult to pick the right moment to go out on track with all the rain.
/ _: j5 M& M, ]3 P4 `* ~' U公仔箱論壇“Unfortunately, things only went well for us in Q1. We waited too long to go out in Q2 [and] it was already raining a bit on the outlap.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。" b; o$ i/ y! z7 b- g
“On the first timed lap, the rain was even heavier, and the track was so wet on the second hot lap that a decent time was no longer possible.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb. o2 C9 `: e$ E; ]4 L) ^% B# Y/ `$ p+ Z8 y
“We didn’t expect that I would not go through to Q3.”
! g: Z) y8 z* H U8 w5.39.217.76Despite his misfortune, Wickens will start tomorrow’s race as the best of the Mercedes drivers in P11.公仔箱論壇( N! Q& `2 ^* @; M+ D" Z3 \' m
Team-mate Gary Paffett will line up 12th after taking a five place grid-drop penalty for using the incorrectly allocated tyres in the free practice session. |